Parer and corer



UNTTE STATES PATENT Trice.

PARER AND CORER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 481,528, dated August 23, 1892.

Application filed October 30, 1891.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, PHILEMON T. GATES, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented a certain new and useful Parer and Corer, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates especially to the class of parers and corers consisting of a tube of medtal with a knife and with an oblique-cut en The novel features of my implement and the advantages arising therefrom are hereinafter fully described, with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure I represents a face view. Fig. II represents a rear view. Fig. III represents a longitudinal section. Fig. IV represents a cross-section on the line a; as, Fig. III. Fig. V represents a rear View o a portion of the tube in blank form.

Similar letters of reference indicate similar parts.

The letter A indicates the metal tube, B the knife, and O the oblique-cut end of the tube.

The tube A forms the stock or handle of the implement, and at a point near the end 0 it has a longitudinal slot D for the escape of the paring cut by the knife.

Prior to my invention it has been customary to cut and entirely remove a portion of the metal of the tube A in order to create a slot like D. Instead of thus removing the metal I cut in the tube A a longitudinal slit A, Fig. V, and a transverse slit A at each end of the longitudinal slit, making the transverse slits of equal length. I then fold the metal on opposite sides of the longitudinal slit A upon itself in planes which are parallel to the longitudinal slit and intersect the ends of the transverse slits A as indicated by the dotted lines in Fig. V, causing the two folds to hug the interior of the tube A, as at D, Figs. II, III, and IV, and by this means I obtain a slot with reinforced edgesintegral with the tube, at the same time obviating a waste of metal. Y

The knife B is a strip or blade of metal, the opposite ends 6 e of which are bent in like directions and joined to the tube A at the ends of the slot D, as by means of solder, bringing the shank of the bladeinto a raised Serial No. 410,327. (No model.)

position opposite and parallel to the slot, said shank being left detached, and the effect of this arrangement is to allow the paring to escape either through the slot or the spacef under the knife Without going through the slot. The raised part of the knife-blade B is bent to a concavo-convex shape in cross-section, as more clearly shown in Fig. IV, whereby the blade is stiifened, rendering it least liable to lose its shape in use, as by a lateral strain or its accidental contact with a foreign object, and the position of the blade on the tube is such as to bring its convexity reverse to the tube, whereby the blade is adapted to conform with the outline of the vegetable or fruit to which it is presented, as indicated in Fig. IV. It may be here remarked that the blade B of concavo-convex shape may be combined with a stock other than the tube A, or a tube without the slot D, since by its raised position the bladeitself permits=escape of the paring.

In the use of theimplement as a fruit-corer the oblique-cut end C of the tube is inserted in the fruit, so as to force the core into the tube, and to facilitate passage of the core through the tube it is generally of a tapering form, the core escaping at the larger end of the tube. The tube hitherto used, however, has been cylindrical throughout its length, whereas the tube A is cylindrical only at its smaller end, it being elliptical at its larger end, as shown in Fig. IV, the cylindricaland elliptical parts each extending about half the length of the tube, and by this shape of the tube an oblong core-escape-way is produced therein, which tends to prevent a crowding of the cores in the tube by affording a lateral play to the cores, another effect thereof being to afford a more convenient grip to the hand at the lower part of the tube. On the larger elliptical end of thetube A is a circumferential band 8, which may be integral therewith, or a separate piece of metal, as a wire, soldered or otherwise secured to the tube, and due to the rigidity imparted by this band to said end of the tube it is effectually kept in the desired shape.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

l. A parer having, in combination with a stock composed of the metal tube, the raised knife-blade, which is bent to a concavo-conform the corer, cylindrical at such end, and I0 vex shape in cross-section and with its conelliptical at its larger end for producing an vexity reverse to that of said tube for stifienoblong core-escape way, in combination with ing the'blade and adapting itto conform with the knife-blade joined to said tube, substanthe outline of a vegetable, substantially as tially as shown and described.

shown and. described. PHILEMON T. GATES.

2. A parer and corer having a stock com- Witnesses: posed of the metal tube, which is of a taper- FRANCIS C. BOWEN,

ing form out obliquely at its smaller end to W. H. MOOREY. ,1 

